Every cloud of confetti has a dark lining.

A demon, who serves to a warlock, begins tormenting his master, if he has not enough work. Talent is the demon.

Even a best fountain-pen cannot make a writer be a fount of eloquence, but fountains teach to sob with ecstasy.

I'm not a hero but I can end the war

You know what Munny said to me, right before we left? She said, ‘Watching someone die is hard work. Go to Australia and watch Faye fall in love with some dude named Rabbit. That should be fun.

We have come to love darkness in the church rather than finding God in creation.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

If you want to be happy in life, keep all of your commitments and don't expect other people to keep any of theirs.

I've been training so long, its second nature to push myself to the limit.

A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid.

Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.